B36604:300
Preparation for sufferings. Or The best work in the worst times Wherein the necessity,…
Preparation for sufferings. Or The best work in the worst times Wherein the necessity, excellency, and means of our readiness for sufferings are evinced and prescribed; our call to suffering cleared, and the great unreadiness of many professors bewailed. By John Flavel minister of Christ in Devon.Preparation for sufferings. Or The best work in the worst times Wherein the necessity, excellency, and means of our readiness for sufferings are evinced and prescribed; our call to suffering cleared, and the great unreadiness of many profesours bewailed. By John Flavel minister of Christ in Devon.
London: printed for Robert Boulter, 1681
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. In endeavouring to engage the Soul upon his own ground. I mean to tempt him from his Station and Duty where God set, and expects to find him. He knows while you are with God, God is with you, 2 Chro. 15.2. Whilst a man abides there, he abides with God, 1 Cor 7.24. Whilst he is there, the Promise is a good breast-work to keep off all his darts: And therefore as Fishers, when they have spread their Net in the River, beat the Fishes out of their coverts and caverns, so doth Satan.
4. In not presenting the temptation, till the Soul be prepared to receive it. He loves to strike when the iron is hot. He first lets their troubles come to an height, brings them to the Prison, Gibbet, ⟨p. 105⟩or Fire, and then offers them deliverance, Heb 11.35, 37.
4. In not p•esenting the temptation, till the Soul be prepared to receive it. He loves to strike when the iron is hot. He first lets their troubles come to an height, brings them to the Prison, Gibbet, ⟨p. 105⟩or Fire, and then offers them deliverance, Heb 11.35, 37.